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NIO has support for writing blocks of data to files. You have complete
byte-level control over how the data is written to the file. These examples
may give you some ideas about specific NIO features that you can apply to
solve your problem: http://www.exampledepot.com/egs/java.nio/pkg.html
Hope this helps,
Mark
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Leon Rosenberg <
rosenberg.leon@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply, but how does NIO plays into it?
>
> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Gary Gregory
> <GGregory@seagullsoftware.com> wrote:
> > Hi Leon,
> >
> > Is java.nio appropriate for your application?
> >
> > Gary
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Leon Rosenberg [mailto:rosenberg.leon@googlemail.com]
> >> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 1:55 PM
> >> To: user@commons.apache.org
> >> Subject: is this a usecase for commons vfs?
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> in my search for a solution for my problem I came across commons vfs.
> >> After reading the wiki and some of the docs I'm not sure whether I can
> >> (rather not yet, but maybe in the near future?) achieve my task with
> >> commons vfs, hence I'm searching for enlightment.
> >> We have an internal messaging system insite, where users can send each
> >> other mail-like messages. They are stored on disk.
> >> For each user we are storing a mailbox object (serialized java object
> >> with the meta data) and plain text file for each message. There are
> >> several hundreds of messages in each users mailbox, and millions of
> >> users. The approach shows good io performance, but has two weaknesses,
> >> 1) we are wasting a lot of inodes with small files
> >> 2) backup times are increasing since its hard to backup a lot of small
> >> files (snapshoting our NAS is not a problem, but creating a backup on
> >> FS base is).
> >>
> >> What we are looking for is a block-write fs in java, something similar
> >> to what malloc does with memory. We want to write only files of the FS
> >> block size to disk, but write our plain text files at defined
> >> positions in the block files. And of course we want it to happen by
> >> magic :-) By the end of the day we want to have something like few
> >> 4096 bytes large files on the fs with 10 496 bytes long messages in
> >> it.
> >>
> >> So at first it may sound like a combination of ram:// VFS resources
> >> and a synch mechanism to dump the ram:// resources to files. Is there
> >> something similar already available in/with VFS? If not, it it
> >> realistic for us to implement it on top of existing VFS functionality?
> >>
> >> thanks in advance
> >> regards
> >> Leon
> >>
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